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THE advantages of photography as compared with wood-engraving for the illustration of works on natural history are in many ways so great that any attempt to perfect and popularise the methods in use should be heartily welcomed. Quite apart from artistic effect, the great superiority of photography is that it ensures absolute accuracy, and, when living animals are the subjects, shows them in natural attitudes. In wood-engraving there are several sources of error which only too frequently make themselves apparent. In the first place, the draughtsman may make a blunder. But too often it is the engraver who is in fault, very frequently from mistaking the nature of some feature in the drawing he has to reproduce. For example, the author of the volume before us calls attention to a curious engraver's error in a well-known popular work, where, from some misconception, the mouth of a stickleback appears in a totally wrong position.
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L., R. Animal Photography.1. Nature 65, 33–34 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065033a0
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